Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt: Sex. With Him.

     By Robert Carter/October 28, 2024

     Per the Psych Search website, the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners filed a complaint this August against Psychiatrist Abdollah Assad for having sex with a suicidal patient.

     Assad had been treating his thirty-one year old female patient for a history of “anxiety and problematic relationships” according to the complaint. In 2020 the patient was staying in a motel and she contacted Assad and said she had attempted suicide. The psychiatrist did not immediately tell her ““to go to an emergency room, call an ambulance, or call police,” as he legally and ethically was obligated to do.

     Instead, he went to her motel, picked her up, and took her to another motel and “engaged in sexual intercourse with her.” The complaint notes that he did this despite being aware of her “troublesome relationships in the past and her obvious fragile state” at that time.

     Afterward he continued to prescribe Adderall for her.

     Assad is charged with six counts: malpractice; influencing a patient to engage in sexual activity; engaging in sexual activity with a patient; unsafe or unprofessional conduct; terminating medical care without adequate notice to a patient; and violation of patient trust and exploitation of physician and patient relationship for financial or personal gain.

     A second complaint was also presented by the Board of Medical Examiners against Assad for improperly prescribing controlled substances to a thirty-three year old male patient in 2019 and 2022.

     For that crime Assad is charged with malpractice; failure to complete medical records; terminating medical care without adequate notice to a patient; violation of standards of practice, violations of model policy; and violations of standards of practice established by regulation as well as with unreasonable additional fees for a lab test.

     The PsychSearch.net website that this article appeared in recently is a compendium of crimes committed by psychiatrists internationally in their practices based on the public records that are available and the media reports of them. One can search lists o the site by country or, in America, by state. One can also search the site country by country or state by state to easily see if a particular psychiatrist is under current investigation or has been sentenced for crimes.

     It is also possible to file a complaint against a psychiatrist in the site’s on-line form, either anonymously or by identifying yourself. The complaint is immediately forwarded to the appropriate state or country licensing board for an appropriate investigation.

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